Sport-skirt.



J. WOOD.

SPORTSKIRT.

APPLICATION FILED IAN-3,1916.

Patented June 20, 1916.

Attorneys 3 m2 COLUMBIA PLANOCIRAPH co. WASHING-mu, D. c

N ITE JEANETTE WOOD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPORT-SKIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June so, rare.

Application filed. January 3, 1916. Serial No. 69,902.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JEANETTE Woon, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Sport-Skirt, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a skirt adapted for outdoor wear and combining with the body portion of the skirt, a pair of trousers.

The invention aims to provide a structure of this type which may be disposed readlly in the form of a completed garment and, at the will of an operator, be spread out flat, a minimum amount of cloth being used and novel means being provided for shaping the trousers properly.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a plan, wherein the garment is spread out fiat; Fig. 2 shows the garment in the form of a combined skirt and trousers; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section; Fig. 4is a plan looking into the bottom of the garment, remote parts being omitted and the view being in the nature of a diagram; Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 of Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a cross sectional view, diagrammatic in nature and showing a slight modification in the invention.

In carrying out the present invention there is provided a pair of body sections 1 and 2 united-along a seam 8. This seam 3 need not be closed throughout its entire length, should a divided garment be required. The body section 2 is continued to form a trousers leg section 4 in which is formed a crotch opening 5, a gore 6 being inset into the leg section 4, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. Connected with the outer edge of the trousers leg section 4 along a seam 7 is a supplemental trousers leg section 8, 1n

the upper edge of which may be formed a dart 9, it being understood that as many darts may be fashioned in the upper edge of the garment as is necessary to shape the same properly.

The body 1 is prolonged to form a trousers leg section 10 having a crotch opening 11 and a gusset 12 of the sort hereinbefore described. Connected along a seam 14 with the outer edge of the trousers leg section 10 is a supplemental trousers leg section 15 provided with a dart 16 of the sort hereinbefore described. Fasteners 17 are mounted on the supplemental trousers leg section 8 near to the outer edge thereof, the same being adapted to cooperate with fasteners 18 on the section 4, adjacent the inner edge thereof. Fasteners 19 are mounted on the section 15 near to the outer edge thereof, the fasteners 19 being adapted to coact with fasteners 20 mounted on the section 1 near to the point where the section 1 merges into the section 10. The sections 1 and 2 are provided, repectively with fasteners 22 and 21. In practical operation, the sections 8 and 4 are olded inwardly, the fasteners 17 being engaged with the fasteners 18. The sections 15 and 10 are folded inwardly, the fasteners 19 cooperating with the fasteners 20. By the operation above described, the trousers legs 23 will be formed. The edges of the body sections 1 and 2 are then brought together along a line indicated at 24 in Fig. 2, the fasteners 21 and 22 being interengaged, whereupon the complete garment will appear as shown in Fig. 2. Attention is directed to the fact that the garment herein described is so constructed that the supplemental trousers leg sections 8 and 15 may be cut out of rectangular pieces of cloth, it being merely necessary to fashion the darts 9 and 16 therein, in order that the garment will shape itself properly to the waist line and the hips of the wearer.

Although fasteners have been alluded to hereinbefore, it is not necessary that fasteners be employed. In Fig. 7 of the drawings, the longitudinal edges of the blank are rolled into tubular form to fashion trousers legs 50, the material being stitched down at the point 51 and, if desired, so much of the material as lies' between the trousers legs and the skirt proper, may be folded upon itself as indicated at 52.

' the outer edges 'may be formed into another Having thus described the invention, What is claimed is e 1. In a combined skirt and trousers, a blank provided along itslongitudinal edges and at points spaced from its longitudinal edges, with cooperating fasteners, whereby the ends ofthe blank may be carried in- Wardly and secured to form trousers legs, the blank being provided, further, with spaced sets of fasteners adapted to be eonnected to form a skirt surrounding the trousers legs.

2; In a combined skirt and trousers, a pair ofbody sections, prolonged laterally to form main trousers leg sections; supplemental trousers leg sections connected with of the main trousers leg sections; cooperating fasteners on one of the supplemental trousers leg sections and upon one of the main trousers leg sections,

whereby the said sections may be brought into cooperation torform a trousers leg; cooperating fasteners on the other of the sup.- plemental trousers leg sections and upon one of the body sections, whereby the said supplemental trousers leg section and the main trousers leg section which is adjacent thereto trousers leg; cooperating fasteners on thebody sections, whereby the body sections may be fashioned into a skirt inclosing the trousers le sections; 'themain trousers leg sections eing provided With crotch openings in their coplel of this patent may be obtainedltor five cents each, by addressing the upper edges; and gores inserted into the main trousers leg sections at the crotch openings.

3. In a combined skirt and trousers, a pair of body sections prolonged laterally to form main trousers leg sections; supplemental trousers leg sections connected with the outer edges of the main trousers leg sections, the supplemental trousers leg sections being connected to one of the main outer leg sections, and the other supplemental trousers leg sections being connected to one of the body sections, thereby to form trousers legs; the main trousers leg sections being provided with crotch openings in their upper edges; and gores inserted in the main trousers leg sections at the crotch openings- 4. A combined skirt and trousers fashioned from a blank the upright edges of the blank being secured to the blank to form independent trousers legs carried by the upright edges of the blank, the blank being disposed in tubular form to bring the trousers legs together and to fashion a skirt inclosing the trousers legs.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signatui-e in the presence of two witnesses.

JEANETTE \VOOD.

WVitnesses CARRIE M. BRENNAN, CARLESE S. SGHAFFER.

"Commissioner 01' Patents.

Washington, D. 0. 

